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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1070, 6 May 1882, Page 2

A meeting of the Gisborne Football Club is convened for Saturday next, May Gill, at 7.30 p.m., at the Masonic Hotel. Mr J. R. Scott, of the Roseland Hotel, invites tenders, to bo lodged with him before noon, on Saturday, Muy 6th, for the clearing of a piece of ground at Makaruka. Ms Stagpoole, Clerk to the R.M. Court at Tologa Bay, notifies that the next, session of the Court will be held at. the Court-house, Uawa, on Tuesday, the 37th day of May, 1882. Mr W. P. Finneran, Architect, notifies that the time for closing of tenders for the erection of a building for t’ e Union Bank of Australia, has been extended to the 16th of May.

The Poundkeeper notifies that a black mare, branded SC near shoulder, short all round, will bo sold at the poundyards on Thursday, 17th May, unless redeemed.

The .V, Z. Times in a late issue says : — When tlie Arawata was last at. Napier the captain refused to allow the usual supply of milk to be brought on board, on account of the prevalence of fever in the town.

Mr D. Johnstone, Collector of Customs, notifies that applications for Auctioneers Licenses have been issued to Cholwell Dean Pill, and Montagu Henry Smith, both of Gisborne.

An important sale is announced to be held to-day, at 11 o’clock sharp, by Messrs Carlaw Sniilh and Co. Amongst other things, are a number of good books, pictures, and the handsome Japanese ornaments which Mr Stubbs has lately been exhibiting. There will also be a large quantity of fancy goods, and some silver and enamel bracelets. Mr G. W. Saunders invites tenders for a five years’ lease, with a purchasing clause, of the properties at Makauri and Roseland, lately advertised for sale by Mr S. Stevenson. Separate tenders to be sent in for each property to Mr Saunders, at the Hotel, on or before Wednesday next, the 10th inst. All particulars uiav be learned front Mr Saunders.

The Rev. J, Hill will preach at Makaraka to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon, at 3 o’clock. Mr Hill, although anew comer, is no stranger to us, and we look forward with pleasure to the prospect of again hearing the earnest and forcible, while plain and simple, eloquence which has held us spell bound many times before the rev. gentloman took up his sojonrn in Gisborne. A recent visitor to the scene of the wreck of the Tarawa states that the cemetery is in a very neglected state. The small headboards at the graves are falling down. He suggests a public subscription to erect a simple but substantial monument, which would give particulars of the event, with the number of bodies buried, and the names of those known.

The Bay of Plenty Times says : —The Opo-tiki-Ormond road is in course of construction. A distance of ten miles of the road is already made from Omaramutu inland. Tenders are now called for the formation of an additional five miles of the road, and when that is completed there will be only twenty-five miles left to form to connect Opotiki by road with Gisborne. The road, when finished, will be a very great boon to the settlers of Counties of Cook and Whakatane ; indeed, the Gisborne people are already anxiously looking for the completion of the road, so that they may be able to drive their cattle to Ohiwa via Opotiki, and eliip them there for the Auckland market, instead of sending them around that dangerous promontory —East Cape. “ Prompter,” of the Christchurch Press, in his Dramatic Notes, says:-—A laughable incident occourred during the performance of a frolic equestrian scene in the Australian Circus the other evening. In this a seemingly inebriated performer roils into the ring from the audience, placing himself in dangerous proximity to the horse’s iioofs, when alarmed for his safety, one of the audience dragged him from the ring, and seated him on the chairout of danger. Thrice was this repeated, amidst the laughter of the knowing ones, and the cheers of the sympathising audience. The gentleman who performed this act of humanity was one of the well-known proprietors of an evening journal, in Wellington, and his confrere of the Auckland evening journal, who was also here on pleasure bent, did not forget to improve the occasion.